Richard Schechner to Direct Lián Amaris' Swimming to Spalding

2009-11-03T18:08:31+00:00

Ground-breaking director Richard Schechner will helm writer/performer Lián Amaris' Swimming to Spalding, at HERE Arts Center, December 3-19, with an opening set for December...

Chad Goodridge, Lorinda Lisitza, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, et. al. Set for...

2009-11-03T18:08:11+00:00

Chad Goodridge, Molly Hager, Lorinda Lisitza, John Andrew Morrison, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, and Baron Vaughn will take part in The Playwrights Realm's concert reading of Michael R. Jackson's Strange Loop on November 8. Maria Goyanes will direct the musical, which focuses on a...

Mary Beth Fisher to Star in Court's Year of Magical Thinking

2009-11-03T17:50:06+00:00

Mary Beth Fisher will star in the solo show, The Year of Magical Thinking, written by Joan Didion, and based upon her acclaimed memoir. Charles Newell will direct the production...

Prick Up Your Ears to Close Early in London

2009-11-03T17:39:46+00:00

Simon Bent's Prick Up Your Ears, which explores the private life of playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, will play its final performance at the West End

Sherrie Austin, Soara Joye-Ross, Sheri Sanders, Robin Skye Set for AMAS'...

2009-11-03T17:37:20+00:00

Sherrie Austin, Soara Joye-Ross, Sheri Sanders, and Robin Skye will be featured in a staged reading of the new musical, Secrets of Songwriting, based on a story by Randi Michaels Block, and featuring book by Michael Aman, lyrics by Aman and Block, and music by Block. AMAS will...

Brian Stokes Mitchell Featured on Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas CD

2009-11-03T17:21:13+00:00

Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell joins the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on the new CD Ring Christmas Bells. The 16-track disc is comprised of live recordings from the choir's 2008 Christmas concert from Temple Square. On the disc, Mitchell delivers Maury Yeston's "New Words,"...

Joe Calarco to Now Direct Burnt Part Boys Musical

2009-11-03T16:33:54+00:00

Joe Calarco will now direct the musical The Burnt Part Boys, to be co-produced by the Vineyard Theatre and Playwrights Horizons at the latter venue in Spring 2010. He replaces the previously announced Erica Schmidt, whom a press statement says "is not continuing with the...

Lark Play Development Center Announces Lineup for U.S./Mexico Exchange...

2009-11-03T16:22:04+00:00

The Lark Play Development Center has announced the lineup of plays that will be part of The Word Exchange: U.S./México Playwright Exchange Program, which will culminate in a series of public readings at the

Fisher Stevens to Join ABC's Ugly Betty

2009-11-03T15:49:08+00:00

Fisher Stevens will join the cast of ABC's hit series Ugly Betty, according to TVGuide.com. The actor will be playing the potentially recurring role of Betty's sarcastic new landlord. Stevens has appeared on Broadway in Torch Song Trilogy, Brighton Beach...

Second Glee CD To Be Released on December 8

2009-11-03T15:37:17+00:00

Glee: The Music,...

All My Sons, God of Carnage, Billy Elliot, Nora and...

2009-11-03T15:11:12+00:00

The 2009 Artios Award winners for Outstanding Achievement in casting were announced yesterday at a ceremony at the New York Times Building, hosted by Janeane Garofalo. Celebrity guest presenters included Christine Ebersole, Vincent Kartheiser, Jennifer Morrison, Carrie Preston, Bill...

David Lindsay-Abaire to Adapt The Guardians of Childhood

2009-11-03T14:44:00+00:00

David Lindsay-Abaire will adapt William Joyce's upcoming series of childrens' books, The Guardians of Childhood, for a new Dreamworks Animation film to be released in 2012, according to Variety. The film will be co-directed by Joyce and Peter Ramsey. The books, to be...

Alan Cumming, Jane Krakowski, Cyndi Lauper, et al. Set for Macy's...

2009-11-03T14:42:30+00:00

Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, and Jane Krakowski are among the Broadway veterans who will be part of the 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, to be held on Thursday, November 26 beginning at 9am. The parade will be broadcast on NBC and hosted by Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera, and Al...

Wolfgang Weinberger Returns to West End in A Guide to Sexual Misery

2009-11-03T14:39:33+00:00

Wolfgang Weinberger will return to the West End in Bernhard Ludwig's A Guide to Sexual Misery, to run November 27 - December 31 at The Arts Theatre. Part lecture and part comedy, the show...

The Shawshank Redemption to Close Early in London

2009-11-03T14:17:21+00:00

The Shawshank Redemption, the stage adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name, has posted an early closing notice at the West End

Ambassador Theatre Group Purchases Live Nation's UK Theaters

2009-11-03T13:49:26+00:00

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) has completed the purchase of Live Nation's UK Theaters (excluding their one third share of The Dominion Theatre). With this acquisition and a new theater being completed in Aylesbury, ATG will have a total of 40 venues. Among the theaters that ATG...

Mary Stuart Masterson and Jeremy Davidson Welcome Son

2009-11-02T21:49:21+00:00

Mary Stuart Masterson and husband Jeremy Davidson are parents to a baby boy, according to a report in People magazine. The actress delivered their son on October 11. This is the first child for the couple, who met during a 2004 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at...

Tovah Feldshuh, David Rasche, Bob Stillman, et al. Set for York Readings

2009-11-02T21:45:48+00:00

The York Theatre Company has announced casting for the next offerings in its Developmental Reading Series, held in Saint Peter's Church (54th Street and Lexington). Alan Campbell, June Gable, Garth Kravitz, Gina Milo, Susan Mosher, David Rasche, and Bob Stillman will be featured in...

Maria Aitken to Direct Shakespeare Theatre Company's As You Like It

2009-11-02T21:16:43+00:00

Tony Award nominee Maria Aitken will direct William Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, November 17-December 20. The production will transfer the action of the play from the Forest of Arden to a busy Hollywood sound stage, incorporating a variety...

Jackie Mason to Try Out New Material at NJPAC November 18

2009-11-02T20:49:36+00:00

Jackie Mason will appear at The Chase Room at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on November 18. The performer will be trying out all new material in one of several of...

American Theatre Wing to Sponsor Essay Contest for The Play That Changed...

2009-11-02T20:38:42+00:00

The American Theatre Wing will sponsor an online essay contest in conjunction with the release of the organization's original book, The American Theatre Wing presents The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays that Influenced Them, available from...

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio to Join USA's Law & Order: Criminal...

2009-11-02T20:02:49+00:00

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio will be joining the cast of USA's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, according to a report in TV Guide. The actress will play the working-class captain of the show's Major Case Squad, replacing

Gregory Itzin to Return to FOX's 24

2009-11-02T18:59:16+00:00

Gregory Itzin will reprise his role as former U.S. president Charles Logan on the eighth season of the hit FOX-TV series 24. Itzin received a Tony Award nomination for The Kentucky Cycle and his many other stage credits include Shipwrecked!, The Physicists,...

Classical Theatre of Harlem Founders Alfred Preisser, Christopher McElroen...

2009-11-02T18:58:51+00:00

Alfred Preisser and Christopher McElroen have announced that they are stepping down from their positions at the Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH). The two will leave the company in November, having served as artistic director and executive director, respectively, since they founded the...

On the Town, Candide, Martin Charnin Part of Seattle...

2009-11-02T18:45:26+00:00

Programming has been announced for Seattle Celebrates Bernstein, to be held from April through June of 2010. Groups from around Seattle will be involved with the event that includes The 5th Avenue Theatre's productions of On the Town, which will feature members of...

Free Staged Reading of Rosa Parks Musical to Take Place in November

2009-11-02T18:35:42+00:00

Free staged readings of Rosa Parks, a new musical by Scott Ethier and Jeff Hughes, will take place at Queens Theatre in the Park on Thursday, November 5 at 7:30pm; Saturday, November 7 at 3pm and 8pm and at Playwrights Horizons on November 12, 13, and 14 at 4pm. The show will be directed by...

Theodore Bikel, Christopher Fitzgerald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Isabella...

2009-11-02T18:26:15+00:00

Barnes & Noble/Lincoln Triangle has announced its programming for November. Among the theater-related highlights are actors Christopher Fitzgerald and Jeremy Shamos joining Gutenberg! The...

Joseph Papp Biography Free For All Goes On Sale on November 3

2009-11-02T18:18:53+00:00

Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told, a new book by Papp and Kenneth Turan, will go on sale officially on Tuesday, November 3. The book is published by Doubleday. The book is based in part on interviews Turan did with over 160 people,...

A Steady Rain, with Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig, to Hold Actors...

2009-11-02T18:02:48+00:00

A Steady Rain, starring Hugh Jackman and

Tituss Burgess, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Julia Murney, et al. Set for Sonnet...

2009-11-02T17:22:54+00:00

Tituss Burgess, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lawrence Clayton, Jenn Colella, Jimmy Ray Bennett, Julia Murney, and Lynne Winterseller will perform in Sonnet Sings the Bard, at 92YTribeca on Monday, November...

Liz Callaway, Kevin Earley, Marvin Hamlisch, Karen Ziemba Set for Kennedy...

2009-11-02T17:11:57+00:00

Liz Callaway, Kevin Earley, and Karen Ziemba will perform at the Kennedy Center's Broadway Up Close and Personal: Marvin Hamlisch, to be held in the Terrace Theater on Monday, November 16 at...

Katie Holmes to Join The Romantics Movie

2009-11-02T16:54:27+00:00

Katie Holmes has replaced Liv Tyler in the comedy The Romantics, according to a report in Variety. The actress is joining the movie, written and directed by Galt Niederhoffer, as an executive...

Daniel Sullivan and Michael Greif to Direct Public's Merchant of...

2009-11-02T16:36:16+00:00

Daniel Sullivan will direct The Merchant of Venice and Michael Greif will direct The Winter's Tale for the Public Theater's 2010 season of Shakespeare in the Park. The productions will be...

Ugly Betty Writer Joel Fields to Receive Abingdon's Christopher...

2009-11-02T16:35:53+00:00

Abingdon Theatre Company will present Joel Fields with the 2009 Christopher Brian Wolk Award, for his new play How I Fell in Love, at an award ceremony and staged reading in the June...

Alan Ayckbourn to Discuss Career on November 15

2009-11-02T16:08:21+00:00

Alan Ayckbourn will discuss his career as part of In Conversation with Alan Ayckbourn, to be held on Sunday, November 15 at 12:30pm at 59E59 Theaters. Howard Sherman will facilitate...

Deanna Dunagan, Ian McKellen, Kevin Spacey, et. al. Among Evening Standard...

2009-11-02T15:18:01+00:00

The longlist of possible nominees for the Evening Standard Awards have been announced. The awards will be bestowed on Monday, November 23 at the Royal Opera House. Tracy Letts' Tony...

Kerry Ellis, Philip Quast, Adam Pascal, et.al. Set for The Night of 1000...

2009-11-02T13:52:57+00:00

Kerry Ellis, Philip Quast, and Adam Pascal will perform in The Night of 1000 Voices a benefit concert to be held at Royal Albert Hall on May 2. David Firman will be musical...

Marc Kudisch, Emily Skinner, Daniel Reichard, et.al. Set for Broadway...

2009-11-02T13:40:13+00:00

Preliminary casting has been announced for the 6th annual Broadway Unplugged concert, to take place at The Town Hall at 8pm on Monday, November 16. Scott Coulter will direct the show, which...

Review: Made in Heaven

2009-11-01T16:59:15+00:00

This new comedy about a pair of conjoined twins is genuinely funny and consistently inventive.

Review: Creature

2009-11-01T16:57:28+00:00

Heidi Schreck's play about a 15th-century woman desperately seeking sainthood is intellectually intriguing but emotionally uninvolving.

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